Saturday, February 27, 2016

ZTE Becomes Major Member of NB-IoT Forum to Help Operators Enter a Market of 100 Billion Connected Devices

SHENZHEN, China - Saturday, February 27th 2016 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS
WIRE)-- ZTE Corporation (0763.HK / 000063.SZ), a major international
provider of telecommunications, enterprise and consumer technology
solutions for the Mobile Internet, today announced that it officially
joined the GSMA NB-IoT (Narrow Band-IoT) Forum as a major member, at the
Mobile World Congress 2016 in Barcelona. The NB-IoT forum mainly
comprises mainstream operators, major equipment manufacturers, chip
providers and terminal module manufacturers around the world. As a major
equipment manufacturer, ZTE will accelerate the development of the
Cellular Network-based NB-IoT industry, help the forum promote and
verify the NB-IoT technology, take part in and accelerate the
development of innovative NB-IoT-related services and applications, and
facilitate commercialization of NB-IoT, together with other members of
the forum.

ZTE has been a major promoter of NB-IoT, the Low Power
Wide Area Technology for the IoT industry. The IoT scenarios such as
smart metering, ecological agriculture, intelligent parking, intelligent
residential community and intelligent architecture require terminals
with deep coverage, low power consumption and low cost in particular. At
present, the widely-used 2G/3G/4G, WLAN and other wireless technologies
cannot meet the challenges of these IoT scenarios, while NB-IoT, which
features narrowband based LTE technology with low power consumption,
deep coverage and multi-connection, can. The 3rd Generation Partnership
Project (3GPP), an international organization for Standardization, plans
to freeze and launch the NB-IoT Standards in June 2016. As one of the
most active contributors to the NB-IoT Standards, ZTE worked closely
with its peers on technical research and standardization and invested
heavily to contribute massively to essential air interface technologies
such as communication channel design, short code, multi-connection and
ultra-low power consumption.

With the development of smart,
mobile and cloud technologies, multiple forms of smart terminals have
been applied. It is estimated that the global number of connections will
reach 100 billion by 2020. NB-IoT will help operators address the
challenge and meet the inter-connection needs of “thing-to-thing”, so it
will be a major trend for telecom operators to follow. Based on NB-IoT,
ZTE offers end-to-end solutions for operators and the industry and has
actively invested in the research on chips, terminals, systems and IoT
platforms to help operators realize the 100 billion connections.

ZTE
released the M-ICT Strategy in 2015 and started to offer integrated IoT
solutions which are applied in Industrial Internet, Internet of
Vehicles, Smart Home, Smart City and Smart Metering. ZTE is dedicated to
building a secure and reliable ecosystem to serve the clients on the
entire industry chain and help partners identify the value of each bit,
by optimizing connections, building the open IoT application platform,
and launching SmartOS fit for IoT. ZTE will continue to offer leading
IoT end-to-end solutions and services for industrial, government,
corporate and operator clients.

About ZTE

ZTE is a
provider of advanced telecommunications systems, mobile devices, and
enterprise technology solutions to consumers, carriers, companies and
public sector customers. As part of ZTE’s M-ICT strategy, the company is
committed to provide customers with integrated end-to-end innovations
to deliver excellence and value as the telecommunications and
information technology sectors converge. Listed in the stock exchanges
of Hong Kong and Shenzhen (H share stock code: 0763.HK / A share stock
code: 000063.SZ), ZTE’s products and services are sold to over 500
operators in more than 160 countries. ZTE commits 10 per cent of its
annual revenue to research and development and has leadership roles in
international standard-setting organizations. ZTE is committed to
corporate social responsibility and is a member of the UN Global
Compact. For more information, please visit www.zte.com.cn.